Cancer is a terrible disease and, to date, there is no known cure for it except treatments that kill fast-growing cells (with accompanying bad results on other non-cancer fast-growing cells like those in hair) and other options to ease the pain or augment the patient’s condition in some way.

Because it is also said that ‘prevention is better than cure’, you might want to check out some of the cancer-fighting foods that you should eat more often – to help boost your immunity against cancer.

While these foods wouldn’t treat all types of cancer, especially those in the advanced stages of the disease, it is great to know that plenty of research studies have proven these foods to be effective in slowing down the growth of cancer cells or interfering in the growth of tumors.

Check out these 9 cancer-fighting foods you should definitely add to your diet now and eat more often.

“This research highlights the great promise of (Garlic) plant-originated compounds as natural medicine for controlling the malignant growth of human brain tumor cells. Tumor growth was completely inhibited in mice with Garlic in their system, even after direct injections of fresh cancer cells and transplanted cancer tumors,” another study posted on True Democracy Party defined.